Design of fuzzy based intelligent energy efficient routing protocol for WANET

Abstract

Wireless ad-hoc networks (WANET) have recently emerged as a premier research topic due to its infrastructure-less and dynamic natures. Topologies of this network can changes very frequently due to its dynamic nature. The node of this network fitted with limited capacity battery which is major problem in real-time operation. The present paper proposes a routing protocol; named Fuzzy based Intelligent Energy Efficient Routing protocol (FIE2R) for WANET. The entire operation of FIE2R is handle by decision maker which divide the entire process into two phases first is WANET graph initiation phase that helps to find out reward of each route into second phase. Based on the comprehensive simulation of FIE2R using MATLAB and NS2 and comparative study of same with other existing protocols, it is observed that proposed routing protocol contributes to the performance improvements in terms of energy efficiency.